Five new books arrived on my doorstep yesterday, two on Utah, two from Wyoming, and one, a new novel about India. Even though my road trip begins in New Mexico and eventually travels through a corner of Nebraska, much of South Dakota and up to northwest Minnesota, the states I’m most excited about traversing are Utah and Wyoming. Utah because I’ve only been in and out of Salt Lake City and Wyoming… Read More
Category: AROUND THE WORLD, NORTH AMERICA Tags: Alexandra Fuller, Annie Proulx, BOOK OF MORMON, books, Close Range, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Green Grass of Wyoming, Gretel Ehrlich, Jon Krakauer, Leaving Before the Rains Come, Mary O'Hara, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, My Friend Flicka, Norman Mailer, ROAD TRIPS, The Executioner’s Song, The Solace of Open Spaces, Thunderhead, Travel, Under the Banner of Heaven, Utah, writers, WYOMING
Wednesday Evening It’s a rainy evening and although the day touring Buckingham Palace and attending the crass, raunchy, smart, funny Book of Mormon were good things for a London Day there’s been such tragedy in a friend’s life everything seems skewed and rather hopeless. Such awful things can happen in an instant. Makes me want to wrap Teresa in a big fuzzy blanket and never let her near danger of any kind…. Read More
Category: AROUND THE WORLD Tags: BOOK OF MORMON, DAUNT BOOKSTORE, FORTNUM AND MASON'S, London, PHOTOGRAPHS, Travel
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